Texas Monthly Talks was a thirty-minute interview show on public television networks across the state of Texas hosted by Evan Smith, then Editor Emeritus of Texas Monthly magazine. Produced by Dateline NBC veteran Lynn Boswell, the show addressed contemporary issues in Texas politics, business and culture. Premiering in February 2003, the show was an original production of KLRU-TV, the PBS station serving Austin and Central Texas. In 2010 the series was succeeded by Overheard, with the same format, host and producer; the renaming was necessary because Smith had resigned his position at the magazine and had become Editor in Chief of the Texas Tribune. On Texas Monthly Talks Smith regularly interviewed public figures from Austin and around Texas, such as Bill Powers, the president of the University of Texas at Austin, mayors Bill White of Houston, Tom Leppert of Dallas, and Texas Governor Rick Perry. His guests also included notables in national politics, such as presidential candidates Howard Dean, John Kerry, Bill Bradley, John McCain, Joe Biden, Mike Huckabee, Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards; in business, such as Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher and Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey; in the media, such as New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich and newscasters Jim Lehrer, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, and Tom Brokaw; and in entertainment, such as directors Francis Ford Coppola, John Sayles, and David Lynch, singers Ted Nugent and Billy Gibbons, novelist Salman Rushdie, and actresses Lauren Bacall, Lily Tomlin, and Debra Winger. In 2006 the show won a Lone Star Emmy Award for interview program. In 2009 an episode with Billy Bob Thornton won a Lone Star Emmy for arts or entertainment program. Guests by season Season eight Mike Leach, head football coach of the Texas Tech University Red Raiders E. J. Dionne, columnist and author Francisco Cigarroa, Chancellor of the University of Texas System Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State Buzz Aldrin, former astronaut Taylor Branch, author Gail Collins, New York Times columnist Jane Smiley, novelist Richard Linklater, director Morley Safer, broadcast journalist Michael Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Augie Garrido, University of Texas baseball coach Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek David Brancaccio, host of Now on PBS Julian Castro, mayor of San Antonio Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, authors Tim Matheson, actor Thomas Haden Church, actor Jake Silverstein, author and editor of